Picture hanger



May 6, 1930. s. ROSENBLUM 1,757,739

PICTURE HANGER Filed Deo. 21, 1927 INVENTOR or press.

Patented May 6, 1930 A UNITEDy STATES SAMUEL ROSENBLUNLOF NEW YORK, N. Y.

rrc'runn HANGER Y Application 1ed December 21K, 1927. Serial No. 241,595.

My invention relates to picture hangers of the type in which an ornamental wooden bute ton has a picture hook secured to the back thereof and it is my object to provide improvedV means for securing the hook to the button whereby the cost of production and the time of assembly is reduced.

Heretofore such hooks have been secured to the button by nails, screws or rivets and in their production two nails or screws have had to be driven making four pieces which had to be handled in assembling. By my invention but two pieces are handled and they are assembled by a single blow of a hammer In the drawing Fig. 1 is a back view of the improved hanger; Fig. 2' a side view of the structure of Fig. l; Fig. 3 a sectional view of the hook member; Fig. t a perspective view of the hook member; and Fig. 5 a topl view of the hook member.

The complete hanger comprises a wooden button 1 with a suitable cover or finish thereon and a picture hook 2. The upper part of the hook 3 is adapted to go over a picture moulding and the lower part fl is adapted to hold a picture cord 5. Two spurs 6 and 7 are struck up, preferably from ythe edges ofV the hook body7 and extend substantially outward at rightangles to the body. of the hook member.

To assemble the button andhook the hook is placed on the back of the button and the spurs 6 and 7 driven into the button until the f hook body is flush with the back of the button.

By this construction the handling of screws or nails is avoided and the hangers. are cheaply, easily and quickly assembled by unskilled labor.

I claim l. `A picture hanger for use with an ornament or the like, including a sheet metal body having its upper end formed with a rearwardly extending picture molding-engaging hook and having its lower end formed with a rearwardly extending cord engaging hook, the front portion of the bodybeing formed signature.

edges of the plane surfaceof the body member'and disposed in spaced planes relative to each other and substantially at right-angles to the body member, said prongs being formed to penetrate an ornament formed with aplane surface so that'the ornament can seat fiat against the plane front surface of the body.

2. A picture hanger for use with an ornament or the like, including a sheet metal body having its Vupper end formed with a rearwardly extending picture molding-engaging hook andhaving its lower end formed with a rearwardly extending cord engaging hook, the front portion of the body being formedl with a plane surface intermediate the hooks, prongs struck from the opposite side edges ofthe body and bent in opposite directions and disposed at substantially right-angles to the plane surface of the body, said prongs being formed to penetrate an ornament having a plane surface so that the ornament can' seat flush against the plane front surface of the body.

8. A picture hanger for use with an ornament or the like, including a body having its upper end formed with a rearwardly extending picture molding-engaging hook and ofthe latter and each of said prongs having i its free extremity formed to penetrate an ornament.

In Vtestimony whereof I havev affixed my SAMUEL lROSENBLUM.

with a plane surface throughout the distance between the hooks, a pair of spaced prongs struck in opposite directions from the side 

